A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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